About Cape Point: Cape Point juts into the ocean where powerful southern storms sweep past. Early sailors dreaded the area and called it the Cape of Storms. Its cliffs are lashed by wind almost every day of the year. Old sailors feared its wind and waves for centuries

Location: The tip of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa · Country: South Africa · Wind Speed: Battered by strong, near-constant ocean winds · Why So Windy: Storms sweep up from the Southern Ocean and around the cape · Nature: Steep cliffs where the cold Atlantic meets the warm Indian Ocean region · History: Sailors nicknamed it near the 'Cape of Storms' · Wildlife: Home to baboons, ostriches and seabirds · World Rank: One of the windiest, stormiest capes in the world